Not Either But Both And
I don’t quite get it, either. I think it helps, though, if you write it Not “Either Or” but “Both And”.
The only thing this makes me think of is that old saying, “When faced with a choice, take both.” or that Yogism, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
I’ve never seen this before, but after a minute or two of parsing, I understand it to mean, “Don’t make me choose Either A or B, I want Both A and B.”
YMMV
This is totally a WAG, but generally western philosophy is called “either/or” philosophy - that is something either has a property or doesn’t (i.e. “A” or “Not A”).
Eastern philosophy is often seen in terms of “both/and” - to use the same example, something is both “A” and “Not A” simultaneously - it’s a Zen thing as I recall.
So it may be a sublte jibe at traditional thinking, or something like that.
Given some of the stickers on that site, it wouldn’t surprise me.
I’d put it on something that’s considered a luxury, meaning that you didn’t have to decide between the luxury item and something normal, you got both.
ex: “I didn’t choose either a food processor or a 24 carat gold chef’s knife - I got both a food processor and a 24 carat gold chef’s knife!”
Not all that clever, IMO.
It’s Nazis. No apostophe.
d&r
shakes fist at the sky
Damn you, Gaudere!
Try Googling and see what comes up. I just did, and religious pages seemed to dominate the results.
It looks like it’s supposed to be “not either-or, but both-and.” You know how in formal logic “or” means one or the other or both? Well, “either-or” (or “either/or”) is a way of indicating our commonsense understand of “or” meaning one or the other but not both. Whoever wrote this verbaige seems to misunderstand the logic by going for parallelism instead: “either/or” is parallel with “both/and.” see? What the author missed is that “either/or” is really one item, not two, so the parallelism really doesn’t work in this case. So what it should say is “not either/or, but and,” meaning that instead of two mutually exclusive alternatives, let’s have them at the same time.
Because of the broad range of sites returned, I doubt this is something that represents a cohesive notion, so much as it is just an ignorant (no offense) soundbite popular with those who prefer slogans to thought.
That’s my WAG, I hope you enjoyed it.
Never explain, never apologize. But I’ll handle the explanation.
You were simply shortening the phrase, “English Grammar Nazi is needed, I think.”
Without that “is,” you’d have a sentence fragment, and we all know you wouldn’t commit such a grammatical sin in a thread title!
Before someone complains that “An” should precede “English,” I’m assuming that “English Grammar Nazi” is someone’s name.
Daniel
Try saying it really fast until the words sort of blur together. See, funny eh?
Nah, I’m just messin with ya. 
Conjunction junction
What’s your function?
now it’s stuck in your head nay-nay nay na-nay-ya
Why not both instead?
There’s the answer if you’re clever!
Paging Zebra. Please report to the back alleyway for your beating. Thank you!
I wouldn’t worry too much about parsing the content of the sticker when the description has grammar like the bit I highlighted above.
Wait 'til you hear about Interplanet Janet.
She’s a galaxy girl.
It could be not either pro-choice or pro-family, but both pro-choice and pro-family, or maybe not either supporting the troops or condemning the war, but supporting the troops and condemning the war. Or maybe not either gay or straight, but both gay and straight.
I knew I missed my chance for a really witty bisexual polyamorous comment.
Corrvin
(wondering if I could get away with nicknaming my boyfriends Both and And)